UDL Book Builder: Learn about Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
What is Universal Design for Learning? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a flexible approach to curriculum design and implementation that offers all learners full and equal opportunities to learn. Based on research on the diverse ways people learn, UDL offers practical steps for giving everyone the chance to succeed. A UDL author knows that each learner takes in information, expresses knowledge, and engages with learning in a unique way. The UDL framework guides authors to create books and learning materials that meet and capitalize on this diversity right from the start. To get acquainted with how UDL works, check out one of the above links! UDL Guidelines The UDL Guidelines articulate the range of options that Book Builder authors should consider when designing flexible books and media that reduce barriers and provide robust supports to all learners. The UDL Guidelines can be found here:
Instructional design
History[edit] Origins[edit] During World War II, a considerable amount of training materials for the military were developed based on the principles of instruction, learning, and human behavior. Tests for assessing a learner’s abilities were used to screen candidates for the training programs. After the success of military training, psychologists began to view training as a system, and developed various analysis, design, and evaluation procedures.[5] 1946 – Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience[edit] In 1946, Dale outlined a hierarchy of instructional methods and their effectiveness.[6] Mid-1950s through mid-1960s - The Programmed Instruction Movement[edit] Early 1960s - The Criterion-Referenced Testing Movement[edit] Robert Glaser first used the term “criterion-referenced measures” in 1962. 1965 - Domains of Learning, Events of Instruction, and Hierarchical Analysis[edit] 1967 - Formative Evaluation[edit] The 1970s - Growing of Interest in the Systems Approach[edit] 2010 and forward[edit]
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What does an instructional designer do?
In the past few months, I’ve been asked by a number of different people what an instructional designer does and how to get into the field. I love instructional design because it is a field where I am constantly learning and I have a great variety in what I do. I use so many different skills—writing, web design, graphics, collaboration, planning, plus of course how people learn. Since this question has come up more than once, I thought it would be useful to collect all the information I have emailed people privately and post it here. So without further ado, here’s the first installation: What does an instructional designer do? I’m emphasizing “experiences” here deliberately, even though that isn’t always how others would describe the job. If all you’re doing is dumping content into PowerPoint slides or text to read, you don’t need an instructional designer. How do we do that? Note: I don’t consider this to be a completely comprehensive description by any stretch of the imagination.
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Outcomes, Learning Activities, Assessment.
Steps to create outcomes-based assessment: Define or review outcomes for your program. This may include both student learning outcomes and service unit outcomes. Align outcomes with activities of the program. Develop a plan for assessing outcomes. Assess one or more outcomes per year, engage in staff/faculty dialog regarding results and take action to implement program improvement. Definition of an academic support program student learning outcome: Student learning outcomes within academic support programs describe the expected knowledge, skills, attitudes, competencies, and habits of mind students are expected to acquire as a result of interaction with your program, services and/or events. Definition of a service unit outcome (SUO): Academic support programs often are involved in informing students (and others) as to bureaucratic processes, regulations, policies, and procedures of the university. Outcomes-based assessment results: Additional hints for success:
Special Education Lesson Plans
For Kindergarten to Second Grade Cave Club Introduction - Student will learn about prehistoric time through hands-on learning activities and other creative art projects.Classroom Etiquette - Raising your hand, asking "please", not calling out without be called on, listening and respecting other classmates ideas.Color Sorting - Sorting colors and shapes.Counting with Dr. Seuss - The student will use numbers and count.Decimal Values and Money - The students will use coins to arrive at the designated total marked on the envelope.Exceptional Children Class Lesson - Students will use their prior knowledge of The Grouchy Ladybug to help them create a mathematical story problem using the grouchy ladybug and the aphids that are to be eaten.How do I feel? - The overall subject would be "Sometimes I feel..." For Third to Fifth Grade Acting Out a Message Using Toys - This activity helps develop auditory memory as well as meting sentence level step 6 from the Auditory Learning Guide. For High School
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Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners
Edited by Robert W. Cole According to Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates (Olson, 2006), the national graduation rate is 69.6 percent. This report estimates that in 2006 more than 1.2 million students—most of them members of minority groups—will not graduate from high school in four years with a regular diploma. Nationally, while close to 30 percent of students do not graduate, only "51.6 percent of Black students, 47.4 percent of American Indian and Alaskan Native students, and 55.6 percent of Hispanic students graduated from high school on time with a standard diploma," compared with more than three-quarters of non-Hispanic whites and Asians (Olson, 2006, p. 6). Moreover, Diplomas Count tells us that the average graduation rate in urban districts is 60 percent, compared to a 75 percent graduation rate in suburban communities. The most diverse group in the United States is our youngest children, and they will make the nation more diverse as they age.
